Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Amper, a rapidly growing IoT startup, as a Senior Full Stack Engineer and contribute to building our customer-facing and internal products. This remote-friendly role offers flexible work arrangements and the opportunity to work from our Chicago or San Francisco offices. You will work in a variety of contexts, building large APIs, microservices, and utilizing Python and React. As a 'product person,' you'll collaborate with a Product Owner to develop and implement new ideas. Amper values a helpful and humble work environment where learning and teaching are encouraged. Competitive compensation, benefits, and growth opportunities are offered.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, preferably in a SaaS or IoT environment
• Experience designing distributed and highly-available systems, weighing trade-offs, and guiding others through implementation
• Fluency with one or more object-oriented languages (Python preferred)
• Fluency with relational databases; performance tuning, sharding
• Fluency with distributed systems; containerization, message queues, parallelism
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working in an early-stage, growing company

Responsibilities

• Work in a wide variety of contexts, building large APIs as well as microservices
• Write a lot of Python
• Build for the web and for mobile
• Work through the challenges of distributed systems
• Tune a single database query for performance
• Help work through new ideas and figure out the best way to implement them

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of DevOps tooling and practices (CI/CD, Monitoring)
• Experience deploying infrastructure (Infrastructure-as-code, cloudformation, ansible)

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, 2-week minimum
• 401(k) plan
• Health insurance (medical, vision, and dental)
• Flexible work schedule